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2008

Tuesday 25 November 2008 KASHMIR
Police in India's Kashmir state clashed with Muslim protesters on Friday. At least 18 people were injured, including one police officer. Thousands of government troops are patrolling Kashmir's main city, Srinagar, in advance of another round of state elections. They have erected barricades on the streets and are warning residents to stay indoors. Muslim separatists planned more protests Friday to renew their appeal for a boycott of the seven-stage vote. Many residents are unhappy with the troop presence, describing it as another disruption. In the past few months, Srinagar has been frequently disrupted by strikes, demonstrations and curfews. In North Kashmir, protesters attacked police posts with grenades. Three militants were reported killed in gunbattles with soldiers since Thursday.

Friday 21 November 2008 TORONTO: AGA KHAN VISITS CANADA
Aga Khan, the leader of 15 million Ismaeli Muslims including as many as 100,000 in Canada, has begun an eight-day visit to Canada. He met in Ottawa with the governor general, Miss Jean, and will next visit Toronto, where he'll meet Premier Dalton McGuinty, before travelling to Alberta and British Columbia. Aga Khan is known both as a spiritual leader and a philanthropist. The Aga Khan Canada Foundation collaborates with governments, civil society organizations and the private sector to provide various resources to developing nations.

Tuesday 18 November 2008 Mosque in hot water again
The Toronto mosque that once warned its members to avoid wishing others "Merry Christmas," equating it with murder, is once again pitted in controversy.

Tuesday 18 November 2008 TORONTO: MOSQUE'S FISCAL STATUS QUESTIONED
The Canadian Muslim Congress has asked the federal government to remove a local mosque's status as a charitable organization. The mosque, which welcomes 10,000 worshippers, is administered by the Somali Islamic Society of Canada. Congress President Farzana Hassan contends that viewpoints published on the mosque's Website violate the values of moderate Muslims. Mrs. Hassan was reacting statements on the site by women who maintain that female excision is honourable, but that pierced ears, high heels and loud laughing are reprehensible. The mosque sought to defend its site by maintaining that different currents of Islam offer differing viewpoints on certain subjects. The Congress has also demanded that the mosque withdraw antisemitic statement on the site. The mosque has offered an apology to the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Jewish community for any remarks on the site judged offensive.

Tuesday 04 November 2008 VATICAN CITY
A three-day Catholic-Muslim Forum starts on Tuesday, the first such event ever held at the Vatican. The Roman Catholic delegation will be led by Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran of France, and the Muslim delegation by the mufti of Bosnia, Mustafa Ceric. The conference was organized after a call for dialogue by Muslim scholars and religious personalities. It was issued after comments about Islam by Pope Benedict which appeared to link it to violence. The Pope's lecture led to protests in Muslim countries some of which turned violent.

03 November 2008 Hijab ban protects women's rights and Turkey's secular constitution
Secular Muslims are welcoming the decision of the Constitutional Court of Turkey to disallow the lifting of the ban on hijabs as a significant triumph for secularism over repressive Islamist practices. The court recently ruled that amendments to the constitution by the ruling AKP to permit hijabs in universities, would amount to rendering "nonfunctional the basic features of the republic."

Monday 20 October 2008 Muslim McCain Fans Confront Intolerance At Rally (VIDEO)
Read More: Islam, John McCain, Muslim Mccain, Obama Muslim, Obama Muslim Smear, Politics News

Thu 16/10/2008 TORONTO: FEMALE MUSLIM MP WINS AGAIN
Canada's first female Muslim Member of Parliament won her third straight election in Toronto Don Valley East riding on Tuesday. Yasmin Ratansi won by 18,105 votes to 12,301 for her nearest rival, Eugene McDermott of the Conservatives. The Liberals have held the riding for 15 years. The riding is home to the country's fifth-biggest immigration population, 60 per cent of residents being newcomers. Mrs. Ratansi says her riding's outreach programs were an effective antidote to the Conservatives' negative ads directed against the party leader, Stéphane Dion.

Monday 13 October 2008 VANCOUVER: JUDGMENT PASSED IN HATE-LITERATURE CASE
The Human Rights Tribunal in British Columbia says that a controversial article published in Maclean's magazine did not violate the province's hate speech law. The article was an excerpt from a book by Canadian author Mark Steyn. In the book, America Alone, the author describes the dangers posed by a growing Muslim population. The tribunal ruled that the article was not likely to expose Muslims to hatred or contempt. The Canadian Islamic Congress filed the complaint, and was the third time the group has complained about Mr. Steyn's article. The Canadian government rejected the claim, saying that it was without merit, and the province of Ontario said it did not have jurisdiction over printed material.

Tuesday 30 September 2008 French Muslims Find Haven in Catholic Schools
Spurning the secular state schools, some Muslim students have found religious accommodation at private ones.
MARSEILLE, France — The bright cafeteria of St. Mauront Catholic School is conspicuously quiet: It is Ramadan, and 80 percent of the students are Muslim. When the lunch bell rings, girls and boys stream out past the crucifixes and the large wooden cross in the corridor, heading for Muslim midday prayer.

Thursday 18 September 2008 Anti-Jew, anti-Muslim views on rise in Europe

Sunday 14 September 2008 India on Saturday was put on high alert, boosting security at airports, rail stations and other centres after several explosions in New Deli left at least 19 people dead. Forty others were injured. A Muslim extremist group, the Indian Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the blasts. The group has claimed previous bomb attacks in other Indian cities.

Sunday 07 September 2008 thesuburban Opinion ? Darfur: Two measures for Muslim corpses
In last week?s Suburban edition, P.A. Sevigny drew readers? attention to Alexandre Trudeau?s documentary on Darfur, which concluded with the question posed by an old priest: ?How long can this go on??My position is that it can go on forever. And the reasons why are in full sight of anyone who wishes to look.Two years ago, Andre Glucksmann, the French philosopher, wrote an article entitled ? Full Story

An introduction to Islamic finance
The whys and wherefores of Islamic finance ... more

Islamic finance
Muslims have a lot of money to invest. But it is a constant struggle to reconcile faith and finance ... more

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Ramadan begins
Ramadan, the Muslim holiday characterized by fasting and prayer, began just after sunrise in Montreal yesterday. During the annual holiday, observant Muslims consume no food during daylight hours, pray throughout the day and strive to be extra charitable. This year, the holiday will end Sept. 29 or 30 with the sighting of the new moon - and also the beginning of the festival of Eid. Pregnant women, the elderly and the sick are exempted from fasting.

Friday Aug 8, 2008 Book on Prophet's bride is pulled
Publisher Random House has pulled a novel about the Prophet Mohammed's child bride, fearing it could...

Wednesday 16 July 2008 LONDON: AIRLINE CONSPIRACY TRIAL WINDS DOWN
Lawyers are concluding their arguments at the trial of eight Muslim Britons accused of intending to perpetrate suicide bombings of planes bound from Heathrow Airport to North American, some of them scheduled to fly to Toronto and Montreal. The eight are accused of intending to blow up at least seven planes almost simultaneously using liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks. The lawyer representing the alleged ringleader told the court that his client planned to release anti-Western videos and detonate explosives at well-known locations, a plan which she described "stupid, but...not murder." All eight defendants have pled not guilty of murder, three admitting guilt of conspiracy to cause explosions.

Saturday 12 July 2008 OTTAWA: KHAWAJA REPORTED HAVING FUNNELLED MONEY THROUGH WOMAN
Testimony at the trial of an Ottawa-area man accused of being a terrorist accomplice continued on Friday. Software designer Momin Khawaja is accused of being an accomplice of five British Muslims who were convicted last year of planning bombing attacks in London and sentenced to life in prison. Zenab Armandpisheh testified that she came into contact with Mr. Khawaja over the Internet when she was an 18-year-old junior college student. Previous evidence introduce by the Crown indicated that Miss Armandpisheh was asked by Mr. Khawaja to wire about $5,000 to Britain through a Western Union office. She told the court that he asked her to open a bank account and to send an accompanying debit card to a woman in London. The card ended up the hands of the ringleader of the five convicted terrorists. The witness also said Mr. Khawaja offered her a number of DVDs depicting jihadist activities. Miss Armandpisheh said she stopped talking to him because although she didn't know what he was doing she found him "dishonest."

Sunday Jul 6, 2008 Hijab on the job

Sunday 15 June 2008 Could polls point the way to peace?
The image of the United States among Muslims in the Middle East has decayed so much, according to a new poll, that large majorities in some countries in the region perceive America as a bona fide enemy.

Saturday 07 June 2008 VANCOUVER: WRITER HOPES TO LOSE RIGHTS CASE
The writer who is at the centre of a case being heard by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal says he hopes it rules against him. Two members of the Canadian Islamic Congress filed a complaint against Mark Steyn on the grounds that an book excerpt that was published in Maclean's magazine in 2006 was contemptuous of Muslims. Mr. Steyn says he wants to lose the case so that he can take the case to a "real court" and if necessary the Supreme Court of Canada. His lawyer says the case is about liberty and what journalism does for it. The lawyer representing the plaintiffs claimed that Mr. Steyn had failed to show the vulnerability of Muslims and to show alternative points of view.

Monday 21 April 2008 When Muslims become Christians
There's a widespread belief that the penalty for leaving Islam is death - hence, perhaps, the killing of a British teacher last week. But Shiraz Maher believes attitudes may be softening.

Sunday 30 March 2008 UNITED NATIONS: CANADA OPPOSES RELIGION RESOLUTION
Canada and EU states voted against a resolution that was adopted by the UN Human Rights Commission and had been proposed by Muslim member states. The resolution says the UN is concerned by the defamation of religions and urges government to prohibit such behaviour. The text of the resolution mentions only one religion, Islam, and contains eight paragraphs which refer to it. European diplomats had said before the vote that their countries oppose a trend to use the protection of religion as a pretext to limit free speech. The UN body is dominated by Arab and other Muslim countries.

Pat Condell goes into overdrive in his latest video, titled “Appeasing Islam.” video

Monday 24 March 2008 Website for anti-Koran film blocked
AMSTERDAM — A Website where a Dutch lawmaker was promoting an upcoming film that criticizes the Koran has been suspended by its U.S. hosting service.
The site had shown Geert Wilders' film's title, “Fitna,” the words “Coming Soon” and an image of a gilded Koran. Now it shows a note that the company is investigating whether the site violates the firm's terms of service.

Wilders has not described the 15-minute movie, due to be released by March 31, in detail but has said it will underscore his view that Islam's holy book is “fascist.”

Sunday 09 March 2008 A Muslim couple was shot dead after separatist militants stormed into their home in Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south. Militants killed the couple on Friday in Yala, one of three provinces struck by a bloody separatist insurgency. The man was killed because he provided information to authorities about the shadowy insurgency that has battled the government for more than four years. More than 2,900 people have been killed since the violence broke out along the southern border with Malaysia.

Monday Feb 18, 2008 Sharia-law fight mirrors our debate on accommodation

Monday Feb 18, 2008 Media are getting all lathered up over nothing
A controversy has been ignited over the climate of free speech in Canada. Ezra Levant republished the Dutch "Mohammed-as-bomber" cartoon, triggering a human-rights complaint against him in Alberta. Maclean's published excerpts from journalist Mark Steyn's book about the implications of population growth among Muslims. The Canadian Islamic Congress asked for equal editorial "time" to reply. Macleans refused. Complaints were then filed by the Canadian Islamic Congress in B.C. and in Ontario.

Saturday Feb 16, 2008 Sikhs 'have option' of helmet, lawyer says
A Sikh who is challenging Ontario's motorcycle helmet law as a violation of his rights has several options...

Friday 15 February 2008 Major Danish newspapers republish Mohammad cartoon
Denmark's five major daily newspapers republished...

Monday 11 February 2008 MONTREAL: JEWISH AND MUSLIM GROUPS STAGE JOINT PROTEST
About 200 people held a protest rally in downtown Montreal on Saturday to demand an end to what they called the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. Some 30 different groups representing Jewish and Muslim communities organized the event.

Saturday Jan 26, 2008 Beyond Kandahar, an oasis
Adeela lifts the blue burka over her head and rushes into her frigid, one-room home.

Saturday Jan 26, 2008 Turkish chief backs lifting headscarf ban
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said yesterday he backed the Islamist-rooted government's proposal to.

Friday 25 January 2008 A major move is underway within Turkey's government to lift a ban on wearing headscarves at universities. The court-ordered ban was introduced 19 years ago under pressure from the military and intellectual elite. They continue to emphasize Turkey's separation of religion and state. The governing AK Party and a key opposition party, the MHP, have agreed to re-evaluate the ban in terms of human rights. A majority of Turkey's Muslim women wear a headscarf. Many of them avoid attending university because they prefer to keep their heads covered.

Thursday Jan 24, 2008 Dutch set to restrict burqas
The Dutch government is set to impose a ban on the Muslim burqa in schools and government offices, media...

Tuesday 08 January 2008 OTTAWA: ISLAMIC GROUP IN BATTLE WITH MACLEAN'S
A leading Canadian Islamic organization is in a heated battle with Canada's leading weekly news magazine, Maclean's. The Canadian Islamic Congress says Maclean's subjected Muslims to hate speech with an article in October 2006 by best-selling author Mark Steyn that said a high Muslim birth rate, combined with Muslims "hot for jihad," could conquer a West that is unwilling to stand up for its civilization. The Islamic group has asked a government body to step in to guarantee it the right to an equal-length rebuttal to the article, which was an excerpt from Mr. Steyn's September 2006 book "America Alone." Maclean's says it has already run 27 letters from readers, many opposed to Mr. Steyn's piece, and is ready to consider a further response. But it says the CIC wants to direct the art work for the rebuttal and to run it on the cover. Publisher Kenneth Whyte says he would rather go bankrupt than have the CIC set the terms for what the magazine publishes. The Canadian and British Columbia human rights commissions have agreed to investigate the complaints, and the Muslim group has the high-profile backing of the Ontario Federation of Labour.

2007

                Prime Minister John Howard - Australia

Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.'  

'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'

'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!'

'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.'

'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.'

'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom,

'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.'

'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.'

A friend recently purchased a teddy bear for $10. He named it Mohammed and sold it for $20.
Our question is though...
...did he make a prophet?

2007

December 18, 2007 Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra joins the Muslim faithful as they trace the footsteps of the Prophet Mohammed to the Mount of Mercy outside Mecca. more youtube

Saturday 15 December 2007 TORONTO: MUSLIM LEADERS DEPLORE GIRL'S MURDER BY FATHER
Muslim community leaders deplored the killing of a 16-year-old Muslim girl by her father on Monday and say it has nothing to do with Islam. The leader of one of the city's largest mosques, Alaa El-Sayyed, says the killing of Aqsa Parvez should reflect on her family's faith. Fifty-seven-year-old Muhammad Parvez faces a murder charge. The teenager's friends said that Aqsa had a longstanding quarrel with her family over her reluctance to wear the traditional Muslim head scarf. El Sayyed says Islam condemns acts of violence and teaches that women have the right to choose whether to wear the hijab.

Saturday Dec 15, 2007 Pilgrims pack Mecca ahead of annual hajj
More than a million Muslim pilgrims from across the world packed the mosque and streets around the Kaaba...

THE DEATH OF AQSA PARVEZ
by Daniel Casey
December 12, 2007

Aqsa Parvez got into fights with her family over how she dressed. In the Star, her friends say that she wanted to listen to rap and hang out with her friends past the 5 p.m. curfew imposed by her family, and had told people that her father beat her when she refused to wear a hijab in school. The Post reports that she had left home for a friend’s house last week to avoid more arguments, and was “scared of her father.” On Monday night, the teenager died after reportedly having been strangled in the Mississauga house where she had lived with her family, and Peel Regional Police arrested her father, Muhammad Parvez, on murder charges and her brother, Waqas Parvez, on charges of obstructing police. Both The National and CTV News show Parvez’s fellow students at Applewood Heights Secondary School, let out early to mourn their classmate, standing grimly in the wet, falling snow and reminiscing about their classmate.

The papers run pictures of Parvez, taken from her Facebook profile, that show the most normal-looking sixteen-year-old imaginable, mugging for the camera with pals, wearing jeans and hoodies. The story that Aqsa Parvez’s friends are telling the media is equally unremarkable, with the exception of its terrible ending: A teenager came into conflict with her family over wanting to live by her own rules, their disputes had grown physically violent in the past, and this time her father reportedly snapped and attacked her so fiercely that he called police and told them he had killed his daughter. When we drop the adjective “Muslim” into the equation, why does this story change? How does a hijab make it a tale of cultural conflict, “igniting a public debate on religious extremism in Canada” in the words of the Globe, rather than the story of a father’s murderously violent overreaction in a dispute with his adolescent daughter? In a rare moment of clarity, La Presse’s Vincent Marissal (not available online) recognizes that the cultural controversy around the crime will unnecessarily “risk making a horrible family drama into a grave social and political crisis.” A man allegedly killed his daughter and must now face justice. That is as tragic as it is basic to this affair; no government affirmation of equal rights will prevent a crazed person from committing a horrifying act of infanticide, and whatever name or religious sanction anyone else gives to the scrap of fabric that supposedly triggered it is irrelevant.

Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 Muslim teen killed after hijab clash
A cab driver has been charged with the murder of his 16-year-old daughter, who was attacked in the family...

TORONTO: FATHER KILLS GIRL WHO REFUSED HIJAB
A 57-year-old Toronto man, Muhammad Parvez, has been charged with murder after telling police that he killed his 16-year-old daughter. When authorities arrived at his home, they found Nina Parvez suffering from live-threatening injuries. The girl was taken to hospital where she died. Some of the girl's school friends say she had recently rebelled against her parents by refusing to wear a hijab. Samaa Elibyari of the Canadian Council of Muslim women says there is no law in Islamic belief that forces the wearing of a hijab. In addition to the murder charges against the girl's father, her brother is charged with obstructing police.

Monday 10 December 2007 Muslim apostates threatened over Christianity-
Alasdair Palmer explores the dangers facing Islam's apostates.
When Sofia Allam left the Muslim faith for Christianity, the response from her family was one of persecution and threats. Alasdair Palmer explores the dangers facing Islam's apostates

Saturday Dec 8, 2007 League's hijab ruling sidelines Alberta soccer team
A temporary ban on hijabs by the Alberta Soccer Association has sidelined a female soccer team.

Friday 07 December 2007 Islam’s Silent Moderates
IN the last few weeks, in three widely publicized episodes, we have seen Islamic justice enacted in ways that should make Muslim moderates rise up in horror.
A 20-year-old woman from Qatif, Saudi Arabia, reported that she had been abducted by several men and repeatedly raped. But judges found the victim herself to be guilty. Her crime is called “mingling”: when she was abducted, she was in a car with a man not related to her by blood or marriage, and in Saudi Arabia, that is illegal. Last month, she was sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes with a bamboo cane. [the world can not asccept this as "their way".."]

Tuesday 04 December 2007 A 54-year-old British teacher found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad has flown from Khartoum to Dubai and is expected in London on Tuesday morning. Gillian Gibbons had been found guilty of having allowed her pupils to confer the name "Muhammad" on a teddy bear. She was given a 15-day jail sentence and ordered deported. Her case inspired angry crowds to take to the streets of Khartoum, some demanding she be executed for blasphemy. President Omar al-Bashir pardoned her after intercession by two British Muslim members of the House of Lords. Mrs. Gibbons said she had no wish to offend anyone. LIBREVILLE: MIGRANTS DROWN OFF GABON Interior Minister André Obame reports that at least a dozen illegal immigrants drowned in waters off Libreville when their boat capsized. The minister says the date of the accident and the exact number of victims is unknown. According to local charities, the boat was carrying migrants from western Africa. Oil-rich Gabon is a popular destination for such migrants. Of the country's population of !.3 million, 400,000 are immigrants, many illegal.

Friday 30 November 2007
THE IMPOLITIC PEDAGOGUE AND HER MENACING MISNOMER
The National, CTV News, and the Star go inside with the ruling of a Sudanese court in the case of a British teacher who allowed her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed. Gillian Gibbons was sentenced to fifteen days in prison yesterday after she was found guilty of “insulting the faith of Muslims,” the Star reports. Gibbons’ case attracted international attention after it was discovered that she faced a maximum sentence of six months in prison, a fine and forty lashes for her crime. During the seven-hour trial, Gibbons wept profusely and promised that she had intended no offence in the naming of the stuffed animal. The teacher’s troubles began in September when one of her seven-year-old pupils brought a teddy bear to class and requested that his cohorts give it a name. The students chose the common Muslim forename of Mohammed, which, being also the name of the prophet, turns out not to be an appropriate title for a toy in Islamic Sudan. An office assistant at the school found out about the bear’s naming and reported the offence to the ministry of education. The National reports that, while Gibbons’s lawyers are pleased with the verdict, the British government is “extremely disappointed” that the teacher should face any punishment at all. An editorial in the Globe (subscription required) suggests that the unfortunate fifty-four-year-old pedagogue has been merely “a pawn in the conflict between the Sudanese government and Britain, which has been a leader in condemning Khartoum’s role in mass killings of civilians in Darfur.”

Monday Nov 26, 2007 Hijab and soccer: another red card
'Ref said it was for safety reasons' Calgary girl, 14, walked off field 'in tears'
[Canada rules apply!]

Sunday 18 November 2007 Skirt too long to please employer
Muslim airport worker, laid off after altering uniform, takes case to rights commission

THE TALE OF THE UNLIKEABLE MR. JAZIRI

by Rishi Hargovan October 23, 2007
Said Jaziri is never going to be a loveable figure for most Canadians. The outspoken and conservative imam from the Montreal area has called homosexuality a sickness; last year he led protests against the Danish cartoons that portrayed the prophet Mohammed as a suicide bomber; he has been one of the most prominent supporters of adopting Sharia law in Quebec. And, according to the Immigration and Refugee Board, he concealed a past conviction for assault of a fellow mosque member in France and he entered Canada with a false passport. Officially, it is for those last two reasons that Jaziri has been deported to Tunisia; but Jaziri’s family members are asking whether he was really deported for his controversial political views. Sarah Adams, Jaziri’s Canadian-born wife, who is eight months pregnant, is inconsolable. Jaziri likely faces arrest and torture, say supporters and human rights groups, pointing to the 2001 example of Haroon M’Barek—another man deported by Canada to Tunisia who faced imprisonment and torture.
The question left to the wider Canadian public is, if torture is really considered to be anathema to human rights and notions of fundamental justice, how can Canada justify sending even its most unsympathetic resident to face it?

La Presse fronts and CTV News goes inside with Jaziri’s deportation. Providing multiple pages and angles on the story, La Presse stands alone in its coverage. Readers are presented with a handy chronology < of Jaziri’s time in Canada, replete with his more choice quotations and political stands, as well as the events that eventually formed the basis of his deportation order.
Another piece details how Tunisia is facing increasing criticism from both the US and Europe for its human rights record. According to a Tunisian human rights group, the situation is so poor that two men who were detained at Guantanamo Bay prior to being deported to Tunisia say they would like to go back to the US prison. In a third article on the deportation, La Presse offers more of the family’s perspective , quoting Jaziri’s brother, Mohammed, as saying: “We don’t know what time he’s arriving, we don’t know in which plane … We know nothing, nothing, nothing.” All in all, La Presse deserves praise for its in-depth coverage of an important and compelling story that the rest of the Big Seven almost entirely ignored.

Monday Oct 29, 2007

Islamic communities' diversity on display

The Bouchard-Taylor commission heard from the one group on everyone's radar these days: Muslims...

Saturday 27 October 2007 Ottawa wants Syria investigation kept secret
OTTAWA–The federal government is fighting any move to open up the secret inquiry into how three Canadian Muslim men came to be detained and interrogated under torture in Syria.

Thursday Oct 25, 2007 Commissioner Challenges Code Authors
TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. - A two-man delegation from Herouxville, the Quebec village that provoked a provincewide debate when it adopted a code of conduct...

U.S. Prosecution of Muslim Group Ends in Mistrial
DALLAS, Oct. 22 — A federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday in what was widely seen as the government’s flagship terrorism-financing case after prosecutors failed to persuade a jury to convict five leaders of a Muslim charity on any charges, or even to reach a verdict on many of the 197 counts.
...President Bush announced he was freezing the charity’s assets in December 2001, saying that the radical Islamic group Hamas had “obtained much of the money it pays for murder abroad right here in the United States.”

Tuesday 23 October 2007 OTTAWA: MUSLIM GROUPS SAY THEY RECEIVED NO HARPER GREETINGS
Six different Muslim groups, including some of the largest in the country, say Prime Minister Stephen Harper's religious holiday outreach to Jewish households apparently does not extend to Muslim individuals. The Muslim groups say they are not aware of any Muslim households receiving holiday greetings from Mr. Harper for Eid, which was celebrated last Saturday to mark the end of Ramadan. They say the oversight appears to belie Conservative assertions, voiced repeatedly in the House of Commons, that the government believes in celebrating all of Canada's cultural communities' holidays and important dates. The issue is a sensitive one for the Conservative government. The Globe and Mail reported last week that internal Tory documents show the party is heavily wooing certain ethnic communities. At the same time, a number of non-Jewish households complained when Rosh Hashanah greetings from Mr. Harper arrived in their mail last month during the Jewish new year.

Celebrating Differences
The sky was still dark when Oussama Boudaa woke up this morning. Within a few minutes, the 14-year-old was enjoying his breakfast, aware that it was the last meal he would have a chance to eat before his day was through.